After years of watching The Devil Wears Prada and Sex and the City and preferring the products of Habitat and Ikea to Adidas and Puma, you finally acknowledge that there may be trouble ahead. What to do, though? Even if you tell your parents gently that you are having issues with your sexual identity, you know that they will either pretend they didn't hear you or that you should seek counsel from the parish priest. You might as well tell him that all this time he thought you were human you were really a horse. If he's not actually gay himself he'll simply say: "Take two paracetamol and lie down until the feeling goes away."

A handful of advocates, armed with nothing more than their keyboards, have put many of the country’s largest retailers, including Apple, Microsoft, Netflix and Wal-Mart, on the spot over their indirect and, until recently, unnoticed roles in funneling money to Christian groups that are vocal in opposing homosexuality.

The advocates are demanding that the retailers end their association with an Internet marketer that gets a commission from the retailers for each online customer it gives them ... a share of the commission that retailers pay is donated to a Christian charity of the buyer’s choice, from a list that includes prominent conservative evangelical groups like the Family Research Council and Focus on the Family.

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Hey, Tripp. Since your mommy is so pleased about you using that word, don't forget to call her a c*nt. Towleroad readers, please use the guideline that civility in public discourse is a two way street:

A: Don't call me c*nt, f*ggot.

What is the appropriate reply?

B: Don't call me f*ggot, c*nt.

Posted by: Guest | Jul 23, 2012 7:42:36 AM

What do you expect from one the Wasilla hillbillies? They are a bunch of trailer trash people that I have ever seen in my whole life!!!

Posted by: Jeffrey | Jul 23, 2012 8:40:21 AM

Calling the Palins hillbillies is an insult to hillbillies everywhere (since most hillbillies are innocuous.) As for being trash, well, actual trash serves a purpose. It provides a living for those who collect it or clean it up. What purpose do the Palins serve except to embarass conservatives at every turn?

My opinion? The Palins are God's punishment to conservatism for all the years it spent blaming everything except teenage acne on "liberal elites" instead of on the American people themselves. It created a morally weak population that knows it will never face any serious censure from the right, and so never has to worry about its behavior. The Palins epitomize this problem.